Organisation of the 8th ESOMM-2024 international meeting: Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals
Abstract
The 8th International Meeting on the Effects of Sound in the Ocean on Marine Mammals (ESOMM) will be held again in The Netherlands,close by the sea-side (venue to be confirmed), The Hague/ Scheveningen. The meeting is organized by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). The 8th ESOMM meeting follows the tradition of the first three ESOMM events in Lerici, Italy (as organized by the NATO Undersea research centre NURC in 2005, 2007, 2009) and later hosted by TNO in Amsterdam (2011, 2014) and TheHague (2018). Latest ESOMM meeting took place in Beaufort NC in 2022 and was hosted by Duke University. Attendance of the meeting is by invitation only, in order to warrant a limited group of key players on the topic.The focus of ESOMM-2024, similar to previous ESOMM meetings, is to link science to policy and regulation. Like in the previous meetings, a combined representation of research, policy and regulation communities is invited. With this we hope to facilitate and reinforce this interaction. Originating as a NATO meeting, the main focal point for ESOMM will be the environmental effects of military sonar sound; but over the years the impact of other (impulsive) sound sources have increasingly been considered as well, like explosives and pile driving. We would like to encourage exchange of knowledge between different communities on other sound sources. The ESOMM meeting provides a platform to communicate recent scientific results and challenges in combination with addressing the needs from policy and regulator perspectives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 15, 2023
- Source ID
- N000142312437
Entities
People
- Frans-Peter A Lam
Organizations
- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy